The New York Times on Monday claimed China was making a “sweeping rewrite” of its laws in a hope to “pacify the United States and ease a rancourse trade dispute”. The new law does address some of the claims made by the U.S., but is China really passing a law to appease them?

Indeed, China-U.S. relations have global implications, and this round of China-US trade talks completed last Friday, like any previous rounds, became the center of attention from the media and observers. What progress has been made is what the media want to find out.

Against the backdrop of intensified competition between China and the U.S., the new World Bank president is very likely to take a tougher attitude toward China. Meanwhile, China needs to be prepared for this outcome.

Recent crime figures from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) further question the strength of the State Department’s decision, with gun and explosive-related crimes dropping year-on-year by 27.6 and 29 per cent respectively.

What worries me is that when you talk about the strategic adversaries, you’re thinking only about the negative side and what I think is we have to get people to think also at the same time about the positive side.

It is clear that India once again plays a balancing act at the G20 summit. The question is how long it can continue this balancing act against the backdrop of increasingly fierce geopolitical competitions.

Although some White House officials are playing down the likelihood of the meeting producing a positive outcome, Trump appears to have toned down his intransigence and cracked the door open to a possible deal.